Release notes: PE modules

[Giovanni Mascellani]

Hi,

in the release notes for Wine 5.0 (BTW, thanks everybody for the
release!) it is written that "most modules are built in PE format
(Portable Executable, the Windows binary format) instead of ELF when the
MinGW compiler is available".

Does this mean that section 3.3 ("Wine builtin DLLs") of the
Architecture overview[1] on the wiki is now outdated? How do "real" DLLs
resolve dependencies towards system ELF objects? Or is this "PE modules"
option available only for DLLs that do not have ELF dependencies?

[1]
https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_Developer%27s_Guide/Architecture_Overview#Wine_...

Thanks, Giovanni.

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am 22.01.20 um 10:39 schrieb Giovanni Mascellani:
> Does this mean that section 3.3 ("Wine builtin DLLs") of the 
> Architecture overview[1] on the wiki is now outdated? How do "real" 
> DLLs resolve dependencies towards system ELF objects? Or is this "PE 
> modules" option available only for DLLs that do not have ELF 
> dependencies?

Right now it only works for DLLs that only call other DLLs. Having
something like that for things that call Linux DLLs is work in progress.